Woven-wire mattress.



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APPLICATION FILED JULY 26, 1902.

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WOVEN WIRE MATTRESS.

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UNITED STATES Patented June 2a, 1903'.

PATENT OFFIC GEORGE I-I. BUCK, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ANNA M. KRAFT, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

WOVEN-WIRE MATTRESS.

' SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent NO. 731,662, dated June 23, 1903 Application filed July 26, 1902- Serial No. 117.113. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. BUCK, a citizen of the United States, residing in the borough of Brooklyn, city of New York, county 5 of Kings, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in \Voven-WVire Mattresses, of which the following is a specification.

, My invention relates to improvements in no woven-wire mattresses; and the object of my 2o rability and which will dispense entirely with adjusting means for taking up slack of the fabric.

Another object of my invention is the provision of a woven-wire mattress which will 2 5 have novel means for application to the bedframe, and which mattress can be constructed at a very low price to render the invention en tirely efficient and practical in every respect. With these objects in view my invention consists of a woven-wire mattress cmbodyin g 1 novel features of construction and combination of parts,substantially as disclosed herein. Reference is to be had to the accompanying two sheets of drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of-reference indicate corresponding parts in all of the views. Figure 1 represents a side elevation of my mattress applied to a bed-frame. Fig. 2 representsatop plan viewthereof. Fig. 2 represents a perspective View of a modification of my invention. Figs. 3, 4, and 5 represent sectional views of the end plates, whichbind the fabric of the mattress; and'Fig. 6 represents 1 a modificationof a form of plate. I

In the drawings, particularly Figs. 1 and 2, A designates the head, B the foot, and O the side rails, forming a bed-frame in connection with which I use my woven-wire mattress.

In the manufacture of my novel construction of mattress I use the two end plates D, which are first given the bend D, forming the channel E to receive the ends of the mattress F, and then with the mattress in the said bend I make the twist or fold D which confines the 5 5 fabric of the mattress in the end plates, and finally, as shown in Fig. 5, the end plates are made flat, which thus securely binds and secures the ends of the mattress in place. In the form shown in Fig. 6 the plate is given an extra fold, which insures the better confining and securing of the mattress, as will be understood.

By this construction it will be seen that when of the double-bend form (shown in Fig. 5) the stiffening end-bar portion of the elastic bedbottom fabric, as seen in section, is composed of two layers of wire fabric bent upon itself, which layers are separated from one another and also cxteriorly compressed by the folds of a metallic band folded upon itself and the wire fabric into a triple fold, and that the construction shown in Fig. 6 differs therefrom only in that the metallic band is made wider and the bar given one more fold, whereby when finished it has three folds of wire and four of the band. During the construction these folds, of whatever number, are formed loosely at first, as shown in Fig. 4, which they could not be were any two of the layers or folds of the band folded upon themselves, so as to lie adjacent to one another, without the interposition of the wire fabric between them, as is the case in former structures, and after being so loosely folded they are hammered or smashed down either by hand-hammers or suitable machines into the compact bar form, (shown in Figs. 5 and 6,) by which a rigid and comparatively stiff yet light end baris formed for the bed-bottom. The ends of the said plates are formed with sleeves or eyes G, to al- 0 low the passage of the side rails or rods H, which in Figs. 1 and 2 are secured in the crosspieces J, secured or resting upon the rails of the bed-frame, and in Fig. 2* the said rods are formed with hooks K, which engage sockets L on the head and foot of the bed and thus secure the mattress in place. 7

It is evident that I provide a woven-wire mattress which can be constructed at a very low price and which possesses the necessary mo strength and durability and which is light and compact in construction and which is efficient and practical.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination with a wire mattress com prising a fabric formed of resilient springwire, end bars for the fabric formed by the interfolding with the fabric into a compact bar of a thin metallic strip or band, a side rod with downwardly-extending ends secured to the end bars one on either side of the fabric, of a headpiece and a tailpiece each provided with sockets to receive the downwardly-turned ends of the side rods, substantially as set forth.

'2. A wire mattress composed of a wire fabbars to connect the mattress to the bed-frame.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE H. BUCK.

WVitnesses:

JOSEPH MARTIN, O. L. DAVIS. 

